#grave

I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt ↗

— Darynda Jones

#grave #self #demons

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. ↗

— Dan Wells

#building #gravestone #apocalypse

I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them? It's no big deal, but then I've been doing it since I got out of diapers. ↗

— Minda Webber

#frankenstein #ghouls #grave-robbers #monsters #vampires

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#grave-peril #harry-dresden #harry-dresden

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#aged #already #delay #enter #entreat

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' ↗

— Abigail Adams

#convinced #creature #cries #dangerous #ever

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ↗

— Aristotle

#hence #history #import #more #nature

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness. ↗

— Robert Blair

#dread #firmness #grave #her #men

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#dog #graves #irony #moon #sentimental

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#body #communicate #conscious #earth #few